White Paper Abstract:
As enterprises contend with more and more data, data center strategy that can variablize IT spend while maintain business agility becomes essential. Thus, assessing and targeting data center challenges at an early stage are crucial for operational efficiency. Not just hardware, but data center software issues can pose critical challenges born out of geographies and complexity of acquisitions. Outsourcing Center and Wipro conducted a survey that included 75 CIOs and Heads of IT from Fortune 1000 companies across US, Europe and APAC that aimed to determine the current state of organizations' data centers as well as explore the attitudes and challenges towards data center optimization.
The conclusion of the survey findings is that to meet current data center challenges, organizations must take measures to consolidate data centers and look at outsourcing arrangements and alternate models of data center management. However, due to the large investment in time and costs involved, this is not taking place at the desired pace. The benefits of new approaches to the data center in terms of efficiency and cost-savings must be better understood and explored